Kalamkas Oil Field (Kazakhstan)

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Kalamkas Oil Field (Каламкас) is an operating oil field in Kazakhstan.

Kalamkas Oil Field is also sometimes referred to as Қаламқас.

Project Details

Main Data

Table 1: Field-level project details for Kalamkas Oil Field

¹Final Investment Decision
²If a country or region is known to not produce any hydrocarbons in an unconventional method, this production type is assumed to be conventional

Unit name	Status	Operator	Owner	Discovery year	FID1 year	Production start year	Production type2
Kalamkas	Operating	MangistauMunaiGaz	–	1976	–	1979	Conventional

Production and Reserves

Table 2: Reserves of Kalamkas Oil Field

million bbl = million barrels of oil

Fuel description	Reserves classification	Quantity	Units	Data year	Source
oil	recoverable reserves	449.52	million bbl	2017	​
oil	total balance oil reserves	3391.35	million bbl	[not stated]	​

Location

Table 3: Field-level location details for Kalamkas Oil Field

Basin	Location	Onshore/Offshore	Coordinates (WGS 84)
North Ustyurt	Offshore, Kazakhstan	Offshore	45.5094, 51.8653 (exact)

The map below shows the exact location of the field:

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